Gnostic Reformation, Clear and Simple

Last week we looked at David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament, and compared some of the verses to verses out of the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi. And we see that when the ancient Greek, which was the language that the New Testament was written in originally, when it is correctly translated from the original text rather than simply anglicized out of old Latin editions that...

I imagine that some people who tune into this broadcast or read my writing, when they see the word Gnostic , they’re hoping it’s going to be more exotic than it turns out to be, because there are many ancient myths and stories that are labeled as Gnostic and Gnostic scriptures that don’t much resemble what is taught in the Judeo-Christian line of religions. But when you read the New Testament afre...

Earlier this week I was a guest on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio and was interviewed by Miguel Conner about my new book— A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel of the Tripartite Tractate. The interview was about an hour and a half—very extensive. So, I hope that you will catch it. It’s on YouTube, but he’s also posted it to audio-only podcast platforms. The name of the episode on Aeon Byte was The G...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights, and Happy Easter! Last week, we spoke about the characteristics of the Son of God and whether the Son of the Gnostic faith is the same as the Son of the Christian faith. And my answer was, Yes, definitely it is, and Well, there are some differences. You may wish to back up to last week’s episode to listen to that in-depth discussion of the Gnostic Son compared to...

A couple of days ago, I was listening to a radio preacher who was railing against people like me and you who are trying to understand Christianity in its most fundamental sense—the original Christianity of the first 300 years after Jesus talked about himself and the Father and Heaven. I want you to realize that the last thing I want to be is a “false prophet” or a “false teacher.” And, of course,...

Last week I started reading a letter from a podcast listener and I didn't get very far. I got as far as the 23rd Psalm basically, and that was it, right? So last week I said there were two prayers that I pray. She asked what prayers do I engage in and how can I give honor to the Father, the Son, and the Fullness in those prayers. So, the other prayer that I say daily or nightly, if I'm going to be...

I’m going to read you some excerpts this morning from one of the listeners. She says a lot of people look at her as if she’s speaking Chinese when she talks about the things she’s learned. She says, “I don’t think the point is who is right versus wrong. But if we can come to a universal understanding that is about love, particularly the Father’s love, the Son’s love, and the Pleroma, the ALL and t...

We Gnostic Christians are in a very funny position as far as Gnostics and Christians go, because we fall into neither camp and we fall into both camps. And this is what I mean. I realize that the last couple of episodes have been very, what people would call, Christian, except the Christians don't call it Christian. It's a funny, funny position to be in. Those of us who call ourselves Gnostics bel...

Hello there and welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation. There have been a few things on my mind I would like to share with you today. You know, I've mentioned in the past that I do listen to the radio preachers because I want to hear what they're teaching. I want to see what is the current state of Christian belief and knowledge. By now you realize that this Gnostic Gospel is definitely Christian...

Here's a treat for you. This is the entire Gnostic Gospel Illuminated book read by the author, Cyd Ropp. This is the little book published in 2019 that was the springboard for all of the gnostic work that followed, including this podcast and the new, much longer, book that is about to be released. This is the simplest presentation of gnosis that you will ever find. Only the essential gnosis was in...

What we call Christianity today, the religion of Christianity, may not be exactly what the Christ had in mind. While it may be a human interpretation and institutional package of the religion that Jesus promoted, there is no reason to throw out the baby with the bath water. When I was about four years old, I recognized the difference between Baby Jesus in the manger and Santa Claus. On the one han...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation. I read a very interesting article this week from Scientific American, February 1st, 2024 edition. It’s a brand new article by a science writer called Rowan Jacobson. It was interesting to me because it just so happens to uphold—finally prove, in essence—one of the hypotheses of the Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything. You know, my Simple Explanation...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Today’s episode is an interview with one of your fellow listeners to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Her name is Hathaway Jane. Hathaway wrote to me saying how much the Gnostic Insights episodes have meant to her. She’s also purchased and read A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything and A Simple Explanation of the...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp, and I’m your host. I’m really glad that you’re with me and that we are exploring these topics together. Today I want to share with you an article that was first printed in the UNT Digital Library. That’s the university library system. It’s by Bruce Greyson, and it’s called Near Death Experiences and Claims of Past Life M...

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of near death experience videos on YouTube . Have you been watching those? They really are fascinating. You can see that people have personalized experiences in their near death episodes. And by the way, in case you don’t even know what near death experience is, it’s when a person is clinically dead—no brain waves, no heartbeat—they can be dead for several minutes....

What is gnosis? There’s a lot of Gnosticism out there on the Internet, isn’t there? And this gnosis that I am sharing with you is quite different from most of that Gnosticism that’s out there. Before 1945 and 1947, when the Nag Hammadi and the Qumran scriptures were discovered and dug up out of the deserts or pulled out of caves where they were hidden, the only Gnosticism they were familiar with w...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We garnered several new subscribers from last week’s Christmas episode. I’m so glad you have found us! This week’s episode is a review of an episode that was broadcasted in September of 2022. One of the Substack readers requested more information about the 3rd Order of Powers, so here goes. And for those of you who have been...

Today, we’re going to look at the nature of the Christ—the who, what, why of Christ. Most people are familiar with seeing the baby Jesus in the manger and that’s what we celebrate at Christmas time, the birth of the Christ on Earth in the form of a human. But the Christ is an ethereal creature that predates the birth of Jesus. Jesus and the Christ aren’t exactly the same, although Jesus was fully...

Welcome back! This week’s episode is a chapter out of the new book you keep hearing about. This chapter deals with the Fall of Logos and the rise of the Deficiency. It will be familiar territory by now and may clear up some fuzziness of thought. I’m not including a transcript because this material is available in the book which is, of course, copyrighted. The color edition of the book should be av...

These essays and accompanying podcast audios are based on the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi. I always present a brief recap at the beginning of each episode to remind you of the concepts and for the benefit of new readers/listeners. This material is logical and additive, so it helps to understand the progression. So far in this series, we have laid out the development of our universe from...

The purpose of this series of podcasts is to share with you the gnosis that I have gleaned from my readings of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts. These podcasts are coming in the order as the cosmology of our universe unfolds, and I think it’s a lot easier for you to understand the material if you follow along in order. The particular book out of the Nag Hammadi that I am using as my primary reference i...

Today, we’re going to talk about how the ego of Logos led to the Fall and the Fall broke open into what became the Deficiency, also known as our universe. Our material universe is a deficient copy of the ethereal plane of the Paradise that the Aeons dreamed of. The great thing about this episode is it introduces another character to the play, and that one is called the 2nd Order of Powers. I’m ins...

The purpose of this podcast is to help us all achieve gnosis, which is knowledge of where we come from and who the originating consciousness is, and what is our relationship to that originating consciousness. So far, we have discussed the nature of the Father, which is the originating consciousness, and the Son, which is that originating consciousness made into a particular entity—that is called t...

Welcome to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We're synchronizing these episodes with the podcast called Gnostic Insights. For now, we're doing the same podcast on both platforms, mainly because I know that a lot of you here at the Gnostic Reformation are new to this talk. And even though we've been discussing concepts and articles that play upon these notions, you were never really given the ba...

Welcome to the Gnostic Reformation. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp and I'm your host. I've had a podcast available on the usual podcast apps for about 2 ½ years now. I don't know how many of my sub stack listeners have started out over on the Gnostic Insights podcast and how many of you overlap. Are you fresh sub stack listeners or are you people that are coming over from the Gnostic Insights podcast? Th...